The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1897, Page 2

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY 1897. EPTEMBER 14 : = of large European capitalists, with the | Rothschilds at their head. By atnobe of- | fered $125,000, but it was refused, Frank Densmore, who went down the river on the Healey a few days azo, bought | 925, above Bonarza, for $35,000 in Jannary, | ment tc be made in July. He took the | purchase price out of the ground in his | preliminary preparations for mining. { No. 32, El Dorado, was worked by John | Anderson. He refused $15,000 for it a few days later realized $45,000 after h ing taken $40.000 out bimself. No. 7. above on Bonanza, $8C00 to the box lensth. av - $47,000 from one hole and N ounces iione pan, while in August 12 last, $20 060 was washed thrown into the sluice-box from | | developed one day, from dir! & hole on No. 3). | It is such tales as these 1hat cause the more strong-headed of the party to declare they will take chances of starvation and | remain ove: e winter. ~Governor John W. McGraw of Wa=<h- | ton is suffering from appendicitis. He | been co bed for several | days, and alth ported better, is not out of danger. He is going to Dawson in | company with General Carr, who gv2s him every attention. Dr. Sidebottom is | attending him. What seemed to be a light fall of rain all vesterday has adaed two fees, of r to the channel, and we are steam- the river with better speed being able 1o travel we night for the first time since entering the river. bie Sickness. onsiderable sickness has oved on bLoard, there being mo less eight persons confined to their rooms dysentery and one, a waiter-boy, ptoms of typhoid fev A case with with s of typhoid was on the Healey, which we passed two d ago. - A party of en- teen of the Hamilton's passengers has decided to stop at Munook Creek as a better prospec: than the Klondike. Munook Creek is abou: fifty miles north of the Tanana River and about half-way to Dawson the river from St. Michael. Its name on the map is the Klanarchar- gut River. is composed of A. A. Mansfeld, W he part B. and W. Lieweilyn, B. Ozden, A. Baldwin, S. Burkman, P. Jackson, H. A. Bigelo Claire Bigelow, Walter A. Hall, Frank Scheidel, W. Trinkle, John Dye, Richard Cooper, W. Moran, Charles Alimond, E. Hopkins and F. Grave, It will be sometime in July next year before these men will hear from their friends outside whom they may notify now of their destination, so remote from the world is it. S. W. WarL. ———— DUMPED ON A SALT MARSH Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Persons Stranded on the Beach | | at St. Michael Island. SEATTLE, Was., Sept. 13—Two hun- dred and twen ve people, passengers on the steamship Humboldt, which sailed for the Yukon August 18 last, are | stranded on the salt, marshy beach at St. | Michael Island, where they are subject to | the terrific gaies that blow across the icy Bering Sea all winter. In the passenger list appears the names of many well-to-do Easterners who were lured to make a foolhardy attempt to reach Dawson by the tales of the marvel- ous richness of the Klondike, spread | broadcast over the country by the news- | papers. Among the passengers are Mrs. Ely Gage, wile of the son of Secretary | Gage, and W. H. Hubbard, William Weare and A. H. Ulrich, all of Chieago and all interested in tbe North American Trans- poriation and Trading Company. A letter received here to-day states Mrs. Healy and party took t e river steamer Healy, sailing August 30, for Dawson City. As the passage up the river takes three weeks their chances of escaping a long stay a: some of 'the trading posts below Dawson are dubious and depend entirely | on the seazon. The riveris reported by | all the passengers on the Humbolidt, | which arrived to-day, as being very low. | If an early freeze comes, as was the case | last year, Mrs. Gage will very probably get | no farther than Forty-mule or Circle City. | | | | For the other passengers on the Hum- boldt a very different fate is in store. They were dumped on St. Michael Isiand in the teeth of a bieak wind from the | north pole with only their tents and thin sheet-iron stoves to keep them from freez- | ing. There is no fuel at the place. All| have ample suppiies, but in spite of this their predicament is serious in the ex-| treme, as thereare not half enoagh houses | to shelter the hundreds of miners tnat are | coming down the Yukon to spend the| winter, being driven out of the country by the food famine. Dr. A. C. Posey of Los Angeles, who went north on the Humboldt and re- turned to-day, says there is no st.ow what- ever for the Humboldt's pas-engers to get to Dawson, although they had pmd $400 each fare throuch to the Klondike ana | ireight on their provisions. To THE CaLr | correspondent to-night he said : It will tuke the Humboldt peop'e, at | the least, three weeks to put their river | steamer together. The engineer admitted | this to me. This will mean that they wil. | not gei started on the long voyage to Daw- | son before September 20. They cannot | possibly get to the Klondike this winter. | They may be able to reach Munook Creek, where rich placers huve been found this | summer. The others will doubtless re- main at St. Michael. The place where we were landed was frightiul in its‘pessibiii- ties for sickness and death. The 1sland ot St. Michael is a huge salt marsh, and the wind has a sweep from Bering Sea, chilling one to the marrow. Death is sure to follow in the wake of the Humboldt’s passengers. I saw it staring me in the face and left. The Humboldt's passengers combined to- gether and resolved to hold the steamer there till the river steamer was built so they would bave a refuge from the Arctic winter. Their plans were well laid, but the revenue cutter Bear was in port and they were afraid to do anything. They wili most acsurediy attach the river steamer. which, by the way, draws four feet of water, while there is but three on the river bars.” . The Humboidt, which returned here this morning, brought ten men from the Kilordike and $20.000. The.r accounts of the shortage of food confirms all that has been said in these dispaiches. The Hum- poldt was eleven days from Michael. The steamer Eliza Anderson is anchored in Dutcn Harbor, where she arrived on the 4:h inst, and where she is now de- tsined by tie revenue officers.’ Her pas- sengers bave by this time entered Bering Sea on a schoouer chartered for that pur- pose. Two of the passengers on the An- derson were 80 Irightened that they gave up their search ior vold and returned south on the steamer Humboldt. —_—— EXPEDITIONS WITH FOOD. Puiet Sound Ciiles Will Unita In 53 Uralng‘UncleAs;m to Co-op— serate With Canadians, TACOMA, WasH , Sept. 13.—1¢ is jprob- sbie-tbat Puget Sound cities will unite in urging the United Siates Government to + | relief mav be afforded to men whom win | action. starting in October, and equipped with at | | turned during the winter some of the | and impending statvation of American citi- | Alaska imposes this duty on the Federal Gov- | In it he says: on TRALL Ay, o A = sl %l S (s LATEST MAP Showing All Tr. “The Call” by W. A. Prat The dotted lines show the truils where they leave the water. are the Takou and the new Daiton, north from Lake Huochei to Fort Selkirk, the fort not being shown on this map. ails to the Yukon, Prepared for t and Garside Bros,, Juneau. The latest trails seek the co-operation of the Cunadiun! Government in sendine a great military | exvedition to Dawson City this winter, ! carrying supplies for Klondike miners | who are otherwise likely to starve. Dur- | ing the last ten days many business men bhave been discussing the situaticn and endeavoring to devise some plan whereby | | | ter will find snowed in about Dawson. Such a mintary expedition seems to be | the most practicable plan yet thought of. ; Itis intended to hold meetings this week to develop the plan and take suitable It is claimed that 800 or 1000 men ieast a thousand sleds ana 2000 dogs could make the journey over the Dalton trail safely and successfully, arriving at Daw- son in December. The organization and discipline of a military expedition would succeed, it is believed, where private or corporate enterprise would fail. could be secured in Canada er Labrador, where conditions are favorable. Two of them can draw a sled Ioaded with half a ton of provisions over the snow and ice, It is thought that such an expedition could land 400 or 500 tons of pro- visions at Dawson, which amount might | turn the fate of hundreds of men from starvation to life. 1f the expedition re- miners could accompany it out, as they would not be afraid to follow the lead of such a large organized body. The food taken in would net profits sufficient to pay all expenses, including a tonus to every | member of the expedition. Mail came out irom the Yukon during December, Janu- ary'and March of iast winter. Mail-car- rier Jack Hayes and other old Yukoners declare that the trip in and out can be safely made any month in the year. The Dominion Government is now preparing tosend mail in each month during this winter. These facts, it 1s claimed, argue in favor of the military . xpedition and assure its success if undertaken. SEATTLE, WasH., Sept. 13.—The Seat- tle Chamber of Commerce to-1ay applied | to the President of the United States for | governmental aid for the people who have gone into the Kiondike and will undoubt- edly, many of them, bave to face starva- tion during the winter. The appeal to the President was as foilows: To the President of the United State alarming reports ot shortuge of The provisions zeus on the Yukon River -are fuliy authenti- cated. The Chamber of Commerce of Seattle respectfully urges the General Government to take immediate steps 10 investigate the condi- tion with a view to devising messures for early relief. Thelack of any jocal goverment in erment. E. O. GRAVES, President. Attest: LiNg, Secrea AL A LETTERS FROM WOOD. Seattle’s Mayor Writes That the Outlook of Getting His Expedi- tion Through Is More Hopeful. SEATTLE, Wasx., Sept. 13.—A. L. Haw- ley, local representative of Mayor Wood in his Yukon transportation scueme, re- ceived two letters from him to-day on the steamer Humboldt. The first one was writien before St. Michael was reached. Have been two days interviewing and listing passengers—a fine lot, really picked men—carpenters, machinists, blacksmiths, engineers, eic. The spirit of agitation is about 2l gone. I can go on with a firm policy, and have practically the unani- mous support of the passengers.’” In the second letter, dated St. Michael, September 2, the Mayor says: “I feel myself the luckiest man on earth. In spite of storms, dangers in the meanest harbor I ev-r saw and of extortion, or utter refusal of anv f:cilities bv the other compan we finishad discharging by workink late and early and one night en- tirely in good weather in three days, moving the stuff nearly two miles from the ship to the beach, & a cost of about $1300 for towage and lighters. I have the business in hand now and feel sure of three hours’ sleep to-night. Passengers 1 0. K. No trouble.” e il SRS BEATEN A+ DAWSON. The dogs | | Prowles of th s city. Minook Creek, in the Tanana River coun- trv. We will, however, probably get to Dawson all right. Our steamer will com- | pare favorably in model and power with the good steamers now here. Am hLoping vou have sent flour and some otber stuff on the Bristol. W!ll write more soon, ant should do so now, but must get two or An Officer of a Trading Company Said to Have Received a Whip- ping From a Committee, | SEATTLE. Wasm., Sept. 13.—A story, | which came down on the steamer Hum- boldt from the far north, that an oftic.r of the North American Transportation and Trading Company was horsewhipped at Dawson City, is being eiven ex- ! tentive publicity in this city to-night. | It is told, confirmed and denied, and it is imposs:ble at this time to whether | or nov it is true. The storv is that the official received | the lash becinse of the part he has played | in the whisky traffic at D wson City. As |is weil known much liquor. has been shipped into Dawson, and it has been es- | serted that the shurtage of food is largely due to the fact that ih: companies so loaded their river steamers wi.h whisky that food bad to remain in the warehouses at 8t. Michael. Several returning steam- ers have brought the news that miners at Dawson were very much incensed at this work of the companies, and had threat- ened in case of a shortage of jood to wreck every building containing liquor. The story told here is that the official had some trouble with a commitiee of miners over the whisky traffic and that as a result they zave him twenty-eight lashes and told him tbat he would have to leave Dawson. It 1s stated to-night that a letter containing this news came down on the Humboldi addressed to J. B. There is such a man in this city, but to-night he could not be located. Passengers who returned on the Hum- boldt admit that they heard rumors of the punishment. Some say there is no truth in it; others say they don’t know that it is untrue. They say it may have taken plac . The local representatives of the North American Transportation and Trading Company do not believe the story. Secretary Charles Hamiiton as serts that his company has not shipped any whisky into Dawson City for months. He says he gave orders weeks ago to the officers at St. Michael to make whisky a secondary consideration. He ordered that the food should be shipped as fast as possible, and that after Dawson City had been supp:i:d then whisky could be si.ipped. Hamilton believes those orders nave been obeyed. Hamilton is now on his way to St. Michael. —_— Cessation o: the Rush. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasu., Sept, 13.— As an-evidence that there 1sat leasta par- tial cessation in the mad rush to Alaska the steamer Topeka sailed at noon to-day with only ei hty passengers, the smaliest list of any trip since last February, when the season for miners’ travel began. Few of the Topeka’s passengers to-day will at- tempt to cross the divide this fall. Sev- eral carpenters, three doctors and two druggists are in the party. While the Topeka was lying at the wharf here to-day customs inspectors boarded her, with the result that thirty- six quart botiles of whisky were found, tweniy-four of which were on temvporary shelves fustened beneath the top of the dining room tables. So much wkisky has been captured here iately that the store- room of ine cusioms office is beginning to present the appearance of a wholesale liguor-house. Lo Could Not Cross the Tfalls. AN EXPEDITION 10 LAKE TESLIN Feasibility of Construct- ing a Raiiroad to That Point. Thrilling Experience With Ice- bergs and Glaciers on the Way. Favorable Report Will Be Madse and Thres Lines May Be Bullt Next Year. JUNEAU, Arasgs, Sept. 6.—After nearly thirty days full of adventure our exploration party has returned from a | journey to Lake Teslin, in the interior of | Alaska, through a wild, rich, rugged and | beautiful country, which few white men have ever seen. OQur trail marks a route to a point whence it is easy traveling to the Klondike. 1t was like making a tour of discovery | through a new world. Final preparations were completed Monday, August 12, and | an hour later, in a driving rain, we left Juneau and faced the mountains. The object of the expedition was to in- vestigate the feasibility of a railroad to Lake Teslin. This lake may be reached aud navicated by steamboats from the mighty Yukon by way of iis outiet, the Hootalinqua River, waking navigation entirely possible from St. Michael to the head of the lake. The railroad projettis backed by Pres- | ton Lea, a cap talist, banker and Lead of | the str et railway system of Wilmington, Del., ex-Senator Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, and capitalists of New York and Philadelphia whom they have assc- ciated with them in the enterprise. A preliminary survey was made two years | ago by P. I. Packard, hence the railroad does not owe its inception to the new dis- coveries on the Klondike. The expedition: comprised P. I. Packard, | agent and promoter of the Yukon Mining, Trading and Transrortauon Company, which is another name for the raiiroad; William Abbott Pratt, who holds the chuir of electrical and mining engineering in the Delaware State University, and their assistants, T. G. Janney of Balti- more, Md., and A. E. Johnson of Victo.ia, B. C.; William J. Dick, a civil engineer formerly of Portland, Or., who, in 1887, | assisted Professor Davidson and party ic establishing by trian ulation the altitude of Mount St. Eli. 3. 8. Johnson, general | manager of the Alaska and Yukon Gold | Exportation and Trading Company, with headquarters at 322 Pine street, San Fran- | cisco; Vireil Moore of S8an Francisco, and | your special correspondent. The expedition was also to have been joined by F. W. Johnson of San Fran- cisco, formeriy a construction engineer ot the Southern Pacific Radroad Company, but he was detained at the !ast moment, and the party hud to proceed witu one les- Johnwon. ~ J. 8. Johnson's ctject was to inspect the mineral resources of the country. Added to the rarty were a number of; Indian packers, several of whom were also found to be named John- son, Eerious trouble was had in the wil- derness with the Indians, but that story | comes in atits proper place in the nar- rative. Leaving Junean the partv paddled south about ten miles to Takou Inlet. Thisinlet is about thirty mies long and frcm one to twenty miles in width, finally termin- ating in the Takou River. Our camp was made tre first night at the mouth | of the tunnel of the “Takou Queen’’ quariz ledge. This ledee was loca'ed about five weeks ugo by William Gil- ber:, Louis Steen, William Jones and Patrick Levy of Juneau. It is con- sidered a very promising property. About midnight several of the party were aroused from -lumoer by the encroachment of the 1ide, ana were compelled to take up their beds ana walk to higher ground. As there was no room on which to pitch their | beds a second time thev had to wait till after the tide turned before they could take another snooze, Several immense giaciers wall the sides of the inlet. They continuously break off and let down big icebergs into the water. When carried down by the swift current of the river and swirling in the tide they make navigation of the inlet very nezard- ous. This scene is one never to be forgot- ten. Hundreds of icebergs of varying size and fantastic shape move in endle:s pro- cession, some in a straight line, others in a circle, and sull others as though they were going throngh the figures or ‘*‘for- ward and back’ and ‘*‘grand right and left” in a silent quadr:lle. One huge bor\g i | | | | | resembled a castls of the time of Louis 1 as closely as anything could thatis not a custile. Itscemed painted 1n modern styls and color. White ice at the base resembiea | a marble foun:ation, and it was sky biue | to its serrated battlemen The morning sun tpped the white minarets with gola, Others reminded the spectator of battle- ships and monitors. They had decks and turrets and towers of ice. At sundown, when the iile turned toward the open sea, the first iceberg sailed muj stically by us. lHe was followed by countless others in | mer girl with two lovers, some were u | glacier. | two miles wide, traversed by the river in | try, says a railroad can be buiit from | to make a steeper grade and shorten the | distance. | considerable cost of | ties, but it is not standinz along the chill parade, But the most animated sight of all was in the early morning when the mighty Takou River strucgled against his an- clent antagonist, o.d ocean’s tide. In the center of the inlet the river seemed to have the tetter of the fight. Ber:s and floes, hap'ess against the current, werc swept on toward the ocean. But the in- coming tide met them broudside ou. Slowly old ocean triumphed, and the fickie forms turned back. Like a sum- decided und remained staiionary, with- out choosing between tide or current Others in the eddies, near the shore, hesi- ated, circled one way and then the other and finally turnea back to the parent The whole spectucle was uot un- like a stateiy minuet, with the booming of the avalanches of ice as they fell from the fronts of the glaciers as its fitting music. A strong breezs came with the changing tide, and with sails spread we were soon moving up the river. For twentv miles on each side steep and scantily wooded mountains descend to the watsr. There is no spotin the entire distance fitted by nature for man’s habitation or even a camping-site. At 3 o'clock in the afier- noon, as we began to get into thicker ice and nearer the glaciers, the oid chief be- came more cautious and a little anxious. The ice breke from the glaciers and fell into the river with an almost deafening noise. Annalatchi wanted to go into camp on a sandbar. Mr. Pratt would not consent to this and the reluctant Indians sullenly continued on the course up the river. All went well 1iil we rounded a pvromontory of rock. There the current ran at least ten miles an hour. We had scarcely turned the point when we saw sudaenly rushing down upon us nine great icebergs. There was ice to the left ol us, ice to the right of us, ice all around us, and the point of rock behind. It was a criticalmomen.—perhaps the most dan- rerous in the exper.ence of every white man present. The icebergs came nearer and nearer. To be struck by them meant death. Not an wstant was to be lost. But mighty is the paddle o the Siwash. A guttural ex- clamation from Annaiatehi and ihe pad- dles sank deep into the rushine flood. A few quick, swift strokes and the canoes shot through a narrow opening. The ice- bergs were behind us. We were safe for ;he present though still in the treacherous ce. At this point we were passing the two gleciers, one of which is called ‘‘dead” and the other *‘alive,” owing to their com- parative aciivity. The dead glacier was brown in color and the live one blue. We could but dimly see the ice breaking off, bui we could plainly hear the thunder of its fall. Waves were made to roll across the inlet when an unusualiy large section of the clacier spiashed into the water. These glaciers flow down to the water on either side of a great, round mountain. After passing them the way was free from the dangers of Hoating ice. As we pro- ceeded the river gradually widened and became more shallow. » - = - So much for the trip; now for the prac- tical results: From iidewater to Lake Teslin is 140 miles, of which eighty miles are by land. The Takou River runs overa flat of rock, gravel and sand from one to from four to twelve channeis. Mr. Pratt after o careful survey of 1he whole cou Juneau to Lake Teslin without a single grade to exceed 3 per cent, unless from motives ot economy it is found desirable He estimates the cost of con- struction of a broad-gauge road at about $25,000 per mile, with the a.ditional ana transporting mate- rials from the States added. There is wood euough on the ground for cross- | ronte. Work on a road to be nsed next winter and spring by sleds may bagin this fall. ‘The plan of the projectors will in all prob- ability be to construct the firsi half of the road irom the head of navigation to the lake next season, and the remainder of the road a year from next season. The terminus of the first half would be at Silver S8:lmon River, and a wagon road would be made from that point on 10 the lake., As now surveyed the raiiroad will come out twenty-five miles below, instead o: at the head of thelake. Ixtensive topo- graphical notes were taken by Messrs. Packard and Pratt. The continement of the Takou R ver to one or two channels, 50 as 10 make navi- | gation eazsier, will be among the first work | to be done. It is ten miles south from | Juneau to Takou Inlet ana thirty miles | up the inlet to the moutn of the river. | Ocean steamers can run up to the mouth of the river. The first river of any imyortance enter- ing the Takou is the Tall-su-kay, which flows in on the west side, about thirty miles from the head of the mnler. Tweniy miles further on the Inklin River enters from the east. This point 1s called the +First Forks,” and 1s really the head of the Takou. Here also the Nah-ka-na comes down from the mountains, Ten miles up the Nah-ka-na the Clo-co-hene River enters. The road may not be con- structed from Juneau to the hezad of nav.- gation until it is completed from that point to the lake. The building of the road is said to de- rend only on the report of Pratt and Packard. Their report will be favorabie. Mr. Pratt left juneau to-day on the steam- ship City of Topeka, to be in Wilmington und Philadelphia as soon as possible and make his report. Mr. Packard and the others of the sur- | veying party will go to work aftera few duys' rest surveying the road from Juneaun to tue head of navigation. If he cannot | get through (o the Klondike this win1 J. 8. Johnson will remain camped at Lake | Teslin, He said he had seen enough min- eral on the trail to the lake to set a dozen companies to work. If all present plans are carried out | there will be three different lines of rai roads toward Dawson City: One from | Juneau up tie Takou, another up thne | Skaguay Canyon and up over White Pass | 2 THAT PAIN IN YOU There is danger in thisageravating pain d_e:mmion for your family. No man in j him wiil hezard his life by allowing this s: into Bright’s disease. It can be cured by Dr. Sanden’s Electric Beit, and it should be cured at once. “For twoyears I guffered with a sev: pain in SACRAMENTO, Car, Sert. 13.—Two of the Sacramento contingencv in the Kionaike rush of last July—Frank G. White and R. - Falkenberg—returned to this city this morning, baving been un- abie to reach the gold fields, owing to the success. Most of our passengers will pre- | fer to stop about half®way un the river, at | impassability of the trails at this season of the year. The fac-simile signature of is on every wnppor . - of CASTORIA. not 8100p over. Your kelc cured me 20 quick U ME. JOAN CRAIGWICK. from Winters, Cal., Augus: 27, 1597. ___DR. SANDEN’S ELECTRIC BELT Infuses a glowix_:g, vitalizing warmth into the back muscley, coaxss th>m into healthy action and quickly cares. Try it. It may cure you in a week. Book frea. Fall particulars, DR. A. T. SANDE Office Hours—8 A. M. to 8:30 P. 253 Washington street, Portiand, Or.; 935 Six g il M.; Sundays, file in your back—danger to you and possibly ustice to himself and those dependent on ame old dragzing pain in his back to grow my ba 'k and kidnays. my b It was 50 bad that T could Was 4 surpr 82 to all the n-ighbors.” wri.es NEW TO-DAT. o A A THE PEOPLE CAN* Trust themselves fo protect themselves, ready to right tneir own seif-inflicted wro commercial reports, the exports and other summarie-, last vear, when the nation was borrowing shou‘ld seize the opportunity now offered people will be quick to see its advaniazes THESE ARE CALIFORNIA-MADE G0ODS Ladies’ Flannel Underskirts . - 50c¢ hese are,home made, of iennis flannel, short gr e;?e;lllm lengths, cark or Wght, very neat and very cheap. better grades, trimmed, 75 -83.7 Iminz, bead Plush Capes. ..... These are 16 inches lon-, fanc; trimmed, fur on collar, alt getber a desirab e and sightly wrap at & jow price. = ee our listof cupes and coats for fall and winter. Klondike Stockings. ......50¢C Severai cases, made of pure waol, specla ly for | our own trade. are now in stock and ready (o seli—25¢, 5uc, $1, as to length and weight. Tiddledy Winks......... 1Oc ‘This is the usual 2-bit quality, but we want to undersell eveiy house in town, so we mude the price .0 cents this year. Full line of gumes bce ts up. Do not miss our Dawson City exh Eastsrn friends tell of the best place for more work, better pay, better prices and better times. about all out. We have Ladies’ 2105 a as a community or as a nation. Nonemo;e ngs than the people of America. Kead | and note the comm{ison w money 10 pay current expense (_.‘anh T 1o engnge in home manufacturing. | and to use the hon'e output. . .15 Thesa are the jipanved ones, and rel o Tre zalvanized are a litle higher, but cheaper than esewners. Marysvil'e Flamnel.... .. ..30c¢ This is genuine home-made goods, B q good weight, a few leading colors. e e, A quait: of 75-cent grale, nuw gies at g cen s with us, ell co.0rs. Notuing equals i Big Boys' Shoes. .........75¢ Thes: are low-cut sboes. ior Sunday wes fuiriy strong and very stylish. $2is their reul i value, sizes 1 to 6. \Navajo Blankeis......$7.25 These are hand-made: came Loo late for Sep- tember M. .. Tiey are ailright. The worl | knows their we riig value. some ate very iancy patterns: sl are heavy. ibit at the fair this evening. When writing Alaska outfit. The tendency of the day is Our Child’s Low Shoes are t50 c'nts. Our Costume Department is at- tracting the best ladies of the land. Goods deiivered free in thiscity and across the 0 bay with our usual promptness. ple: THE BI& STORE AT THE FER ITH 'CASH STORE We aim to give every one a welcome and to make their stay, whether for a moment or a month, as nt as possible. Lo not fe:1 that you must buv. We are always “willing”’ to sell, but make no effort to force goods on our patrons at RY—25-27 NARKET STRUAT to Windy Arm and the third over the Stickeen trail, all terminating at naviga- ble water. _Har HorrMan. Japan hafir:!;one newsnaper twentys Now it has 2000. five vears ago. Philadelphia Shoe (o, No. I0 Thieo 1. STAMFED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT STATEMENT ....OF THE.... CONDITION AND AFFAIRS 1 ....OF THE.... National - Standard INSURANCE COMPANY F NLW YORK, IN THE STATE OF NEW York. on the 3ist day of December, A.D. 1896, and for the year ending on that duy. as made to the Iusurance « ommissioner of -he Stute of Califoraia. | pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and - [ 611 0tthe Po'fii ni Coie, condens-d as per blank YOU CAN BUY FOR $i: Misses’ Tan, Button or Lace, Ladies’ Tan Southern Ties, Ladies’ Tan Prince Alberts. e The sidewalk and street in front of the new »preckels bu:lding ars well-uigh fm- pussable, und we bave postpi.ed remod- eling our building ‘o & coupls of weeks 50 tha: the stree. will not be blockad~d. All our v and perfected and we will continue our rimoe ing suie & couple of weeks long-r. We mus: sell our )an ~hoes b-fore our fall stock airives, and o do th's we wili have 10 sacrl! entire iines. Child en’s and Misses kxtia Fine “Jan Cloth-Top, Lace or But'on ~hoes, with medium pointed toes and tips and spring hetls, sizes 8 10 1044, reduced from $i 50 10 90c; sizes 11 10 %, reduced from $175 to $1. Ladies’ Finest Qualiiy Tan Kid ~outhern Ties, wi'h cloth tops, hand- turne! soles and medium squa e 1093 or jointed toes and tps, reduced from 3150 to 81 <oty Ladies’ Extra & Fine Tan_ Kid Prince alberts (ow cut), hand- turned sotes. med.um square t es or pointes toes and tips. Lonis XV heels, reduced from $3 to $1. Conntry orders solicited. A%~ Send for New lllustrated Catalogue. Address B. KATCHINSKI, reILADELPHIA SHOE co., 10 Third St.. San Francisco. [0C.0000C0I0G00000CO0I0C00CO0C) oe® ASTRIKING SALE! CLOCKS ANSONTA PIRATE 75 ots . ALARM CLOCKS.... $1.95 Porcelain Decorated [ormer Branch Store 000, 000000 CO0000COOCIO (010,000 00 0C.0C00; oyl Ay sy ClCl0'0.C.0000. hour gong strike, 22 incnes kigh.... 8- Day Ebonized - case Clocks, 3¢ hour Cathe- gyul zong, 10} inches E® Our selection of Novelt, Brouze, Enameled Iron, Onyx and Porcelain Clocks is very eomplete. All Clocks Soid With a Written Guarantee. EUGENE G. DAVIS lace Hotel, San Francisco. 10 to 1. 232 West Second st., Los Angele: teenth street, Venver, Colo. 632 Market Street, Opposite " Pal NOTE.—Make no mistake in the number—ES B2 MARKET STREEL Make noteof it $2.95 GOLDEN RULE BAZAAR, cased Clocks, with 24- incnes bigh. ... } 31'50 1234 MARKET ST. % | (00000000} 1000000000000 0000000000000 00000 turnished by .he Commissio .en CAPITAL. paid up in ASSE S, Cash Market Vslue of all Stocks Bonds owned by Compan: Cash in Bauks 3 Interest due and accrued on ali Stocks uud 1.0aDs ... TEARES Premiuws in due Ccusse of Collection ard Total Assets... LIABILITIES, Losses In jrocess of Adjus:ment or in SUSPENSe.......o..e. .. .. $ 15,148 54 Gro>s premiums on Fi e Risks r ning one yesr or le-s, $250,409 reinsurance 50 per cent.......... 125.204 66 | Commissions and Broke 10 beco e due Return Premium: Relnsurauce. ... Total Liabllities.... . INC: ME. received for Fire = $201,718 96 1.421 41 4,892 15 7 30 Net Cashactually Preminms g | Received for intere on Bonds, Stocks, all other sources. Total income... EXPENDITURES. Net amonnt paid for Fire Losses Paid or allowed for Commission or 827,785 24 Brokerage.. ieiesnoo.. 63,318 98 Paid for Saiaries, Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc...... 2,470 00 | Paid for duate, National and local taxes... Sl 290808 All other paymens and expendi- tures. 3.359 49 ‘Total expenditures. .. Fire. 842,926 78 Losses fucurred during the year. s ‘ T AND PREMIUMS. | Fire Risks. | Preminms. Net_smount of Risks| | the | .. |$34,929, ts':uL $318,714 48 writt o during [ Pyenvtro o { Net_amount expired during year. | Net a December 31, 1896, s the | | 67101,910| | 28,851,118 25040031 E. C. CONVERSE, President. DAN WINSLOW, Secretsry. Subscribed and_sworn to befors me this 24in | J day of June, 1897. GLO. 0. RUGER, Notary Public. WINFIELD S. DAVIS, General Agent. 208 Sansome St., San 1 ranciiec . STATEMENT ——OF THE—— 64,628 86 \ CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~——OF THE—— ASSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, | Q5 SEW YURK, TN THE STATE OF NE 1 U York, as made to the Insurance Commission of the Ntute of Caliloruia. pussuaut (0 the provic slous of <ections 610 wad 611 of the Puiltical Code, «ondensed as per biauk furnished by the Commtssiouer. CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stock, psid up in Cash - & Cash o Banks.. Total Assets.... ROBERT C. RATHBONE, President. DAN WINSLOW, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th a) day of June, 1~87. o GLO. 0. RUGER, Notary Public. WINFIELD S. DAVIS, General Agent, 208 S ome St., San ¥Franciscu. NOTARY PUBLIC. A J. HENRY, NOTARY -UBLIC, OPP. PALAC~ HOEL Telephone Kesidence R ‘1elechoue 1a | reec